The People's Own M.P Irish Lyrics And Chords

Written by Bruce ScottBruce also wrote :Lowlands Of Flanders and My Liverpool Rose. The song is about Bobby Sands from Belfast who died on hunger strike in May 1981 after 66 days and became M.P for the area on 9 April 1961, not long after the election the British government introduced a law that stopped prisoners running for election, it must have been a bit of an embarrassment for Maggie Tatcher to see a hunger striker being elected. Bobby received 30,493 votes. More than 100,000 people attended Bobby Sands funeral.

How[G] many more must[Em] die now,how[C] many more must we[G] loseBefore[G] the island[Em] people own[D] destiny can [G]chooseFrom[C] imortal Robert [G]Emmit to Bobby Sands M[D].P.Who was[G] given 30,[Em]000 votes while[D] in cap[G]tivity[Chorus]He was a[C] poet and a[G] soldier,he died corageous[D]lyAnd we[G] gave him 30,[Em]000 votes while[D] in capt[G]ivity[2]Thomas Ashe gave everything in 1917The lord mayor of Cork Mc Sweeney died his freedom to obtainBut never one of all our dead died more corageouslyThan young Bobby Sands from Twinbrook the peoples own M.P.[3]No more he'll hear the larks sweet notes upon the Ulster airOr gaze upon the snowflake pure to calm his deep dispairBefore he went on hunger strike young Bobby did composeThe hythm of time the weeping winds and the sleeping rose[4]Forever we'll remember him that man who died in painThat his country North and South might be united once againTo mourn his to organise and built a movement strongWith ballot box and armalite with music and with song